Sentences with phrase «woman with migraines»

In my practice, I routinely recommended transdermal progesterone products for women with migraine problems.

Fluctuations in estrogen seem to trigger headaches in women with migraines.

Women with migraine with aura were also more likely to have a family history of Parkinson's disease compared to those with no headaches.

«The results of this study were of particular interest because more than half of the pregnant women with migraine experienced some type of adverse birth outcome, suggesting that these pregnancies should be considered high risk,» said study author Matthew S. Robbins, M.D., director of inpatient services at Montefiore Headache Center, chief of neurology at Jack D. Weiler Hospital of Montefiore, and associate professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

However, in some studies, women with migraine headaches actually show a marked decrease (of about 80 percent) in their symptoms while pregnant.

Most women with migraines actually experience fewer headaches during pregnancy, especially during second and third trimesters, Wells said.

The risk for high frequency headache, or more than 10 days with headache per month, increased by 60 percent in middle - aged women with migraine during the perimenopause — the transitional period into menopause marked by irregular menstrual cycles — as compared to normally cycling women, says Martin, the study's lead author.

It's also possible that women with migraines see their doctors more often and therefore end up in better health overall.

When compared to women unaffected by the condition, the risk of developing a heart attack was 39 % higher for women with migraine, the risk of having a stroke 62 % higher, and that of developing angina 73 % higher.»

«Our study shows that patients with chronic migraine, meaning attacks occurring on more than 15 days per month, are three times as likely to report more severe symptoms of TMD than patients with episodic migraine,» said Lidiane Florencio, the first author of the study, which is part of the Thematic Project «Association study of clinical, functional and neuroimaging in women with migraine,» supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP.

According to doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, medications and treatments long considered safe to treat pregnant women with migraines may not be.

Women with migraine were asked to self - report their frequency of headaches as well as the characteristics of their menstrual cycles.

«Women with migraines have higher risk of cardiovascular disease, mortality: Migraine should be considered an important risk marker for cardiovascular disease, say experts.»

Interestingly, the study found that men with migraine had almost double the odds of generalized anxiety disorder compared with women with migraine.

• 19 percent of the women with migraine delivered babies with low birthweight, compared to 8 percent in the general population.

Most of the women with migraine, 62 percent, were treated with a combination of pill and intravenous (IV) drugs.

• About 20 percent of the women with migraine had preeclampsia, a condition marked by high blood pressure, compared to between 5 and 8 percent in the general population.

They discovered that the women with migraines had a 30 % lower risk of developing breast cancer.

For women with migraines, additional options include discontinuing use of birth control pills or stopping hormone replacement therapy.